Building Winning Trading Systems with TradeStation
Praise for BUILDING WINNING TRADING SYSTEMS with TradeStation ™\ "This book will prove vital to all systematic traders. Pruitt and Hill share a wealth of innovative timing patterns and fully disclosed trading strategies. For TradeStation™ users, there are powerful tutorials on indicator design and system building. The authors’ vast expertise will benefit even practiced TradeStation™ veterans."\ Nelson Freeburg Editor, Formula Research\ "TradeStation™ systems traders will discover a virtual...
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TradeStation™ has gained worldwide acceptance as the premiere investment software platform, but information regarding it has been limited and focused mainly on functionality–until now. In Building Winning Trading Systems with TradeStation™, systems experts George Pruitt and John Hill show you how to unlock the power of this platform–specifically TradeStation™ 6.0–and profit from it as you trade a variety of markets including the futures, commodities, and stock market, to name just a few. Since a large portion of this book involves actual computer code, a companion CD-ROM with numerous programs and data is also included.Building Winning Trading Systems with TradeStation™ is essentially two books in one–a trading system development guide and a guide to TradeStation™’s programming language. Within the first few chapters of this informative resource, you’ll be introduced to EasyLanguage®, the powerful programming language that sets TradeStation™ apart from other software packages. Building on this foundation, Building Winning Trading Systems with TradeStation™ discusses the essentials of programming, from proper programming techniques and program control structures to data structures and analysis techniques such as PaintBar, Indicator, ShowMe, Function, and Strategies.With the basics of programming behind you, this comprehensive guide covers all aspects of researching, building, understanding, and evaluating your own trading strategies and systems in conjunction with TradeStation™ and EasyLanguage®. In-depth analysis provides practical guidance on: How to understand trading system performance and proper strategy optimizationGood trading ideas, their codes, and how to translate them into softwareHow to fix your logic and programs through the art of debuggingDeveloping, researching, and testing trading ideasAnd much moreWith the knowledge gained from these discussions, you’ll learn how to put your trading ideas into action and make the right decisions. But that’s not all. Chapters dedicated to the utilization of TradeStation™’s Percentage Change charts, options strategies, and interviews with some of today’s leading systems developers and traders round out this definitive volume. Whether you trade stocks, futures, options, or commodities, the one thing you need for any of these markets is a reliable trading system. Building Winning Trading Systems with TradeStation™ will show you how to use the world’s best investment software platform to develop and utilize trading systems that really work.
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionCh. 1Fundamentals1Ch. 2EasyLanguage Program Structure30Ch. 3Program Control Structures39Ch. 4TradeStation Analysis Techniques52Ch. 5Measuring Trading System Performance and System Optimization77Ch. 6Trading Strategies That Work (or The Big Damn Chapter on Trading Strategies)109Ch. 7Debugging and OutPut157Ch. 8TradeStation as a Research Tool168Ch. 9Using TradeStation's Percent Change Charts to Track Relative Performance194Ch. 10Options201Ch. 11Interviews with Developers228App. AEasyLanguage Syntax Errors283App. BTradeStation 2000i Source Code of Select Programs309App. CReserved Words Quick Reference326Index381
